Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-12
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
TWENTY SEVENTH SESSION SIXTY
EIGHTH DAY.
SENATE.

Wilson offered resolution allowing the Jour
| nal Clerk SIS for weeks service in remaining
| for the purpose of journalizing the Governors
messages. Referred 10 the Committee on At
! taches.
| Passed. Also, S. B. lS6, relating to duties and
powers of State Board of Horticulture nor the
| determination of fruit pests)
| Sargent moved to take up A. B. l. known as
the pilot bill, and upon roll call the motion was
| lost
A. B. IA was made case of urgency, aud read
| twice and ordered reprinted. The bill author
ICES Supervisors TO create the Office of County
Veterinary Surgeon and prescrbes his powers
/ and duties
| A. B. 34S relating to powers and duties of
| Trustees of reclamation districts Passed
! Sargent's motion TO reconsider the passage of
a. B. 199 was indefinitely postponed
Lenahan moved to take up three little billsn
said bills being to pay the claims of E. ]. Smith,
| Jessie A. Galland and J. F. Gawthorne. who are
| alleged TO have performed services for the Com
| missioner of the Labor Bureau 1t is unneces-
| sary to say the bills were taken up ard passed
| Dray renewed the motion to have the recon-
| sideration of the pilot bill taken up. The Chair
| put the question, which was declared carried.
| This decision raised storm of objections and
| Goucher appealed from the ruling of the
! Chair. The Senate at once went into one of its
! fits of disorder, and a go-as-you,please war of
| words ensued. Finally the roll was called on
| sustaining the Chair, which was decided in the
negative, and the matter was dropped.
| A message was received from the Governor
{ announcing his approval of S. B. 10, exempting
| fishing boats and nets from execution. Also, S.
B. e. to regulate the hours of labor OF streetcar
! employees.
The following Assembly bills TO provide for
| deficiencies in appropriations, were passed
| Nos. 551, 354; 355 $50, $751; S5S. 359 800 35l &c.,
964 S65, S66 S6S, SEQ, 372, S7s S54, S15 S77, 37S
| 379 and $50.
| S. C. A. ,, relating TO the Supreme Court and
the Supreme Court Commits soners, and preserib-
| ing the duties of The Justices and Commits
| sioners, was adopted in lieu of the eonstitu-
| tional amendment on the same subject hereto
| fore adopted.
AT clock P. N. the Senate took recess I'M
til 7:30 o clock.
Evening Session.
On reassembling the Senate proceeded with
the consideration of the list of deficiency bills
above enumerated, which were passed under
| suspension of the rules.
| Nrooman asked permission to introduce, out
OF order, a bill providing for special election
TO be held April y, 1887, at which shall be sub
mitted to the people such amendments 10 the
Constitution as had been adopted at-the present
| session of the Legislature.
BY unanimous consent the bill was allowed TO
| be introduced. II was declared to be a case of
urgency, read three times and passed.
Goucher and others presented protest against
the action of the Senate i'll transmitting TO the
Assembly the bill relating to the dismissal or
modification of iniunetions before the motion
to reconsider the vote thereon had been regu-
larry called up. The protest was ordered spread
upon the journal.
'Caminetti called attention to the fact that in
| the county government bill, as passed, the col
lection of licenses is imposed upon Tax Col
!, leetors. but there had been no provision made
TO allow such officials the usual commissions for
the collection of the same. He therefore intro
duced bill providing for their fees for license
collections, which was read the first time and
! ordered printed
A. B. 227. relating to the procuring of lands
for raising and improving the banks of streams
fJr the protection of roads and highways was
read three times and passed.
PRESENTATION TO THE I1EuTENANT-GovERSoR
The presiding officer Senator Chandler at
this point appointed Senator Goucher COM
mittee OF one 10 escort Lieutenant Governor
Waterman to the bar of the Senate for the
purpose, he said, of having him render an
account of himself" When this duty had been
performed, the Chair called upon Senator Yell
TO act as prosecutor.
Senator Yen said the duty he had 10 perform
was one OF mingled pleasure and sadness. He
referred 10 the pleasant relations that had ex-
listed between the President of the Senate and
the members OF that body, and in an eloquent
and timely speech, interspersed with both pathos
and humor, he presented the Lieutenant-Goy-
eTnor, on behalf of the Senate, with elegantly
chased gold hunting-cased watch and chain,
with seal. On the front case was Il finely-exe-
cuted monogram OF the Lieutenant Goveruor,
and on the reverse side a horseshoe in relief
and studded with diamonds. Within the horse
| shoe was a horses head in relief. The seal at
tached to the chain was of California quartz
with the seal of State inlaid with gold and
platinum. The reverse side bore a large mono
gram of the recipient
In response ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Waterman
said he hardly knew how to thank the Senators
| for the kindness they had shown him. He and
many of the members of the Senate had come
here knowing comparatively nothing of parlia-
mentary rules, but they had worked through
L the session pretty well. He could not, he said,
find words to thank his friends for their many
acts of courtesy shown him. and especially for
their muniiieent generosity in presenting. him
with such beautiful and valuable gift. He sup
posed that henceforth he must discard his old
and true silver time-keeper Whenever in the
future he shall have occasion 10 refer 70 it he
shall always be remined of the Senators of the
twenty-seyenth session. When we meet here
two years hence" said he, Il shall use il to time
you in your speeches. l cannot say more at
this time than to thank you from the bottom of
my heart"
PRESENTATION TO SENATOR WHITE.
The chair called President pro ten White to
the front of the desk, and senator Wilson came
forward and in a very eloquent speech--in
of the Golden State-he presented him with a
magnificent set Of solid silver, consisting of six
pieces and salver. The pieces We're of elegant
design and workmanship
: Senator White spoke length in accepting the
beautiful gift and in response to the compli-
ment paid the native sons by Mr. Wilson, he re-
ferred eloquently to the pioneers who are daily
passing away from this scene of action. He re-
joiced in the fact that partisan prejudice had
not entered into the deliberations of the Senate,
and that all were about 10 return to their homes
firmer friends than when theyca together at
theopening Of the session.
Il OTHER REMEMBRANcEs.
Senator Jones, on behalf of the Senate, next
presented Secretary Hamilton with handsome
gold-headed cane, and the recipient responded
in appropriate terms
sergeant-at-Arms Wilcox was next presented
with a handsome gold-headed snakewood cane,
inscribed: Presented to Sergeant alarms J.
w. Wilcox by the Senate of California March,
1887"
Mr.. Wilcox responded eloquently and with
much feeling. and was loudly applauded.
Senator Murphy, on behalf Of himself and
number of brother Senator's offered a set of res
olutions complimentary to Lieutenant Governor
Waterman, which were adopted, and an ele-
gantly -engrossed copy thereof presented to him.
THE USUAL FUNNY" BUSINESS
The hour from II o'clock until midnight was
consumed in the presentation of resolutions out
of order. Some were witty, and others were
rather broad" but the majority were of little
credit to their authors.
| At midnight the Senate adjourned till 10
o'clock A NJ. tomorrow. 1t will remain in ses-
sion for two hours and at II o'clock noon both
| Houses will adjourn sine die.